Category Archives: disenfranchisement

Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailRepublicans across the country are doubling-down on everything that made Americans mad at them last year, like union-busting and abortion laws. All their promises to create jobs were cover for austerity measures and … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: White Hands at the Ballot Box

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: White Hands at the Ballot Box”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailSouth Carolina was the heart of darkness during slavery days. Not only did South Carolinians start the Civil War, theirs was the only state that never raised a Union regiment … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Disenfranchisement

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Disenfranchisement”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mail Tweeting an AP article which found that South Carolina’s new voter ID bill will hit African Americans harder than whites, Republican operative and self-described Christian Wesley Donehue remarked that the article “proves EXACTLY why … Continue reading →

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Yes To Puppets

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Yes To Puppets”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI’m with Digby in her analysis of right-wing dominance in the health care debate: This is, btw, why people make those stupid puppets for the big marches. If you aren’t willing to bring on the … Continue reading →

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Republicans Hate Grandma

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Republicans Hate Grandma”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailThe GOP’s answer to their political irrelevance? Disenfranchise someone, of course: Republican legislative leaders have lost all sense of shame with their 11th-hour bill to roll back voting rights in Florida. The legislation is so … Continue reading →

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